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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday (December 6) that Russia would not prevent its athletes from competing at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics if they wanted to, damping down calls from some Russians for a boycott of the Games. The IOC on Tuesday (December 5) banned the Russian tea...

Declaring goals achieved; Putin orders withdrawal of main Russian force, hours after peace talks resume in Geneva. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a pull out of “the main part” of his troops fighting in Syria. The announcement came just hours after peace talks between the Syr...

The White House said on Thursday (Jan 21) the finding of a British inquiry which concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin probably approved a 2006 Russian intelligence operation to murder ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium-210 in London was indicative of the political ...

The Russian armed forces have not employed all their capability in Syria and may use “more military means” there if necessary, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday (Dec. 19). While addressing Russian Security Service staff gathering in Moscow on the occasion of their professi...

Russian President Vladimir Putin told his government to take Ukraine to court if it did not repay a $3 billion Eurobond while other Russian officials blasted the International Monetary Fund for softening its lending rules to help “crooks” in Kiev. The Kremlin reacted sharply after the Was...

Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with his French counterpart Francois Hollande on Thursday (November 26) with both leaders agreeing to extend military cooperation in the fight against Islamic State. “Me and the president of France have just finished detailed talks. They happened in a...

A former aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin has been found dead in Washington DC, Russian state media say. Mikhail Lesin, 57, Russia’s former press minister and a one-time head of the powerful Gazprom-Media Holding group, died on Thursday. Russian media, quoting his family, said he suffer...

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on an unannounced visit to Moscow. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Mr Assad “came on a working visit to Moscow” on Tuesday evening and held talks with Mr Putin. Russia began air ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin sat down for talks with U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Monday (September 28) and spoke about a number of issues, including Syria and Ukraine. Putin told Ban he was hoping to be able to find “common ground”...

The Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill which allows foreign organisations to be banned from operating in the country. The law allows the authorities to prosecute foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) or firms designated as “undesirable” on national security grounds...